Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe positive and the negative paths to enlightenment. Delivered Sep 21, 1986
Season 4 Episode 142
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, contrasts the "positive" and "negative" paths to enlightenment.
Drawing upon ancient Chinese Taoist, Li Tzu, she begins…
5 days, 15 hours ago
The Silent Night, the Holy Night Within. Delivered December, 1986
Season 4 Episode 141
Zen Roshi and Christian minister, Lola McDowell Lee, illustrates the many harmonies between Eastern spiritual practices and Western mystical traditio…
2 weeks ago
The Tao of Ordinary Being. Delivered August 24, 1986
Season 4 Episode 140
The Taoist approach to existence is much different from our usual rigid, goal-oriented conditioning. Lin-Li, a man nearly a hundred years old, lives …
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Freedom from preferences. Delivered Aug 31, 1986
Season 4 Episode 139
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explores our tendency to confuse changes in external conditions with genuine inner liberation.
Lola recounts the classic…
1 month ago
Where Taoism, Christianity and Zen meet. Delivered August 17, 1986
Season 4 Episode 138
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee explores the interplay between ego, consciousness, and the spiritual path, drawing on Taoist, Buddhist, and Christian tr…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Unlearning and existential trust. Delivered Aug 10, 1986
Season 4 Episode 137
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, explores the concepts of unlearning, existential trust, and the structural dynamics of the ego.
Lola describes the state…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Trap of Words - Delivered August 3, 1986
Season 4 Episode 136
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, recounts Chuang Tzu’s advice: the purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and once the fish are caught, the trap is fo…
2 months ago
Zen is not an intellectual exercise. Delivered Jun 20, 1986
Season 4 Episode 135
(Note on the recording: Thank you for your patience. Many of the remaining cassettes of Lola’s talks have substantial noise and echo issues. To overc…
2 months, 2 weeks ago